How anyone in his position, can do this sort of thing and not suffer even the consequence of losing employment, proves that things have gone past the point of no return, in my opinion.

He makes this statement as though he fully believes that this is "how things are done", without even the slightest interest in, or awareness of, the myriad possible dire consequences for those he is suppose to serve and protect.

Which might gain you a decade of semi-coherent semi-peace while the same-old-parasites' children reorganize and get their ducks in a row and start the whole game over.

Sadly, a Revolution would, as always, put you right back where you started, and put the same processes you revolted against, right back in place, as always.

What is actually needed, is an Evolution.

This experiment has ended and ended badly. But it has taught us an encyclopedia of lessons.

It is time to sit down and create something new, using what we have learned from this last experiment, and from all the experiments before it, that will hopefully have a far better chance to function as a social formulae, "For and By The People".

Why revolve back to the same place once again? And Again?

Discard the old an failed and that which has proven useless or detrimental.

Revise what worked and add what was learned.

Adapt.

Evolve.

Or Die.

And it might be wise to add addenda to all future Constitution Documents; that explain in great detail, exactly what is meant by every statement in that document, to prevent exactly the kind of secret revisions that have heralded the new "decline and fall" of the current formulae.

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Sun, 2 Aug 2015 11:28:04 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150801/10390931819/this-week-techdirt-history-july-26th-august-1st.shtml#c27How are these precedents going to effect shareware?https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150730/23065931806/judge-curious-if-malibu-media-is-seeding-own-files-engaged-copyright-misuse.shtml#c590
Sun, 2 Aug 2015 11:12:41 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150730/23065931806/judge-curious-if-malibu-media-is-seeding-own-files-engaged-copyright-misuse.shtml#c590So while Copyright trolls are making some dirty moves, they aren't that much dirtier than conventional advertising. And in a lot of ways they are LESS dirty. I doubt Copyright trolls use the kind of psychologically invasive marketing techniques that are common in other markets.

So there is a subjectivity here that could easily evolve into regulatory capture. More importantly, such regulatory capture would likely target distribution networks most commonly used by small producers of intellectual property.

There is a difference between patent trolling, and copyright trolling. Patents are broadly scoped, and copyrights are narrowly scoped. We hazard ourselves for not giving that fact adequate deference.]]>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150731/06131031809/taylor-swifts-streaming-rant-nearly-identical-to-garth-brooks-used-cd-rant.shtml#c605
Sun, 2 Aug 2015 10:43:36 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150731/06131031809/taylor-swifts-streaming-rant-nearly-identical-to-garth-brooks-used-cd-rant.shtml#c605not being listened to.]]>Re: Something I'm not clear on...https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150729/23003431797/contrary-to-what-youve-heard-tpp-will-undermine-us-law-including-supreme-court-decisions.shtml#c654
Sun, 2 Aug 2015 10:43:17 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150729/23003431797/contrary-to-what-youve-heard-tpp-will-undermine-us-law-including-supreme-court-decisions.shtml#c654I believe however, that any secret reinterpretation of any part of the Constitution will thus "completely wipe out" the designed effectiveness of that part, in much the same manner as actually erasing that part from the pages of the constitution.

The simple facts that (1) POTUS did a work-around via Fast Track legislation, for a (2) secret trade deal that affects the "laws of the land" of many lands including America, means that the Constitution has already been compromised beyond redemption in order to prevent any future finding of the new laws that the deal creates, or the old laws that the deal alters, as unconstitutional.

Its is perhaps for this very reason that corporate America hired a constitutional scholar for the job of POTUS.

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Sun, 2 Aug 2015 10:31:37 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150731/10061231813/ridiculous-terrorist-reporting-provision-intelligence-authorization-would-undermine-first-amendment.shtml#c563Thank-u]]>Re: Re: Where's the smoking gun?https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150731/09240231811/wikileaks-latest-info-dump-shows-again-that-nsa-indeed-engages-economic-espionage-against-allies.shtml#c565
Sun, 2 Aug 2015 10:31:17 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150731/09240231811/wikileaks-latest-info-dump-shows-again-that-nsa-indeed-engages-economic-espionage-against-allies.shtml#c565I have no doubt the effect described in the book - whereby third-world countries are loaded up with debt - is largely accurate. I do however think Perkins' "Hit Man" story is a lot of BS or sensationalistic - useful to push a narrative in an otherwise dry and dense subject.]]>Re: Re: Held for moderationhttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150731/10061231813/ridiculous-terrorist-reporting-provision-intelligence-authorization-would-undermine-first-amendment.shtml#c552
Sun, 2 Aug 2015 10:20:27 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150731/10061231813/ridiculous-terrorist-reporting-provision-intelligence-authorization-would-undermine-first-amendment.shtml#c552That's the only similarity with the post that was held back for moderation last weekend.

Either that, or its not a bot. :)

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Sun, 2 Aug 2015 10:17:12 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150731/10061231813/ridiculous-terrorist-reporting-provision-intelligence-authorization-would-undermine-first-amendment.shtml#c550Strange days these.]]>Held for moderationhttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150731/10061231813/ridiculous-terrorist-reporting-provision-intelligence-authorization-would-undermine-first-amendment.shtml#c525
Sun, 2 Aug 2015 10:15:00 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150731/10061231813/ridiculous-terrorist-reporting-provision-intelligence-authorization-would-undermine-first-amendment.shtml#c525Once again a post has been tabled for Moderator Review!

Looks like things here they are a-changing....]]>Held for moderationhttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150731/10061231813/ridiculous-terrorist-reporting-provision-intelligence-authorization-would-undermine-first-amendment.shtml#c510
Sun, 2 Aug 2015 10:15:00 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150731/10061231813/ridiculous-terrorist-reporting-provision-intelligence-authorization-would-undermine-first-amendment.shtml#c510Once again a post has been tabled for Moderator Review!

And rightly so, since it no longer exists in the form that American citizens are familiar with and hasn't since 9/11, when the government of the US gave itself the power to reinterpret the words therein, because..... Terrorists!!

The way it is interpreted now, pretty much insures that the Police State needs not worry about it at all, as the new secret government version, now supports fascism, rather than democracy and gives the Police State all the Secret War-Condition Legal Powers it needs to turn the USA and eventually, the world, into its members' personal bank account, while American citizens argue over whether or not billionaires are smart enough to tie their own shoes.

If the situation were not so dire, it would indeed be stunningly comical.

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Sun, 2 Aug 2015 09:50:58 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20110417/21485513927/smartphone-apps-quietly-using-phone-microphones-cameras-to-gather-data.shtml#c5000Nothing to worry about. Everything is under control. Go back to Sleep.https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150731/10061231813/ridiculous-terrorist-reporting-provision-intelligence-authorization-would-undermine-first-amendment.shtml#c466
Sun, 2 Aug 2015 09:39:45 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150731/10061231813/ridiculous-terrorist-reporting-provision-intelligence-authorization-would-undermine-first-amendment.shtml#c466In other words, this proposed provision has all the hallmarks of being the start of a slippery, Orwellian slope!"

But because there is not now, and never has been, such a thing as a "conspiracy" and because American billionaire industrialists, drug lords, financiers and businessmen, like American millionaire lawyers and politicians, are simply way too incompetent and stupid to actually plan and execute anything remotely like a conspiracy, without the ever-watchful and intuitively intelligent US Joe Six-pack catching them in the act, all of these proposed provisions, just like all the other past and future changes to American law, such as those that are coming to a city near you through the Fast Tracked "copyright trade deals", is all just purely an amazing coincidence and the Boys in Power really for really did not mean to introduce legislation that would undermine the whole concept of American democracy, on purpose.

Honest!

It just looks that way because of all them Anti-Vaxxers and 911 Truthers, and the ever-growing army of Conspiracy Nutters and their unending wringing of hands, over impossible authoritarian-fascist fantasies.